Some people's brain function still affected by Long COVID years after infection
UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including ‘brain fog’ showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental processes up to two years after infection with the virus.
As someone with migraines i feel for the people that have these symptoms. There is a lot of symptom cross over between long Covid and migraine.
At the same time, I find it really hard to feel sympathy for people, who didn’t take precautions to protect themselves, from something we still know so little about. If I could have made a choice to avoid “catching something” that causes migraines, I would have done everything in my power to not take the risk.
Also, not everyone had the option of staying in. That was a benefit reserved for the privileged few. At least in America, the lack of government support meant that lots of people had to choose between starving to death or potentially catching a (probably non-lethal) disease. Hell, there weren’t even regulations passed regarding the right to work from home, so it was entirely at the employer’s discretion if you got to stay home.
My employer mandated that every worker was essential, and had everyone continue coming into work. On the one hand, it was nice having a solid 40 hours straight through the pandemic. I never had to deal with the unemployment BS. On the other, it meant I was constantly seeing my office mates and couldn’t properly isolate. Hell, the same job one city over let everyone go home for two full years and paid them a fucking full salary the entire time. That could have been my job too, but due to differing leadership I had to continue going to work every single day.
Agreed. I worked in retail during that and my wife in healthcare. It was either quit our jobs that supported our family or risk COVID daily. Guess which one we went with.
Eventually we both fell ill with COVID. Luckily, it only dulled my sense of smell. My wife never presented long term symptoms that we know of.
You could have worn the best mask available to you this entire time and leaving the house one time over the last 3 years would still out you ar risk. Short of being a shutin forever, what would you have people actually do?
Maybe America shouldn’t have declared COVID over when it was at its peak because they were “tired of wearing masks”?
I still wear my mask because COVID is still around. Never caught it. I have always properly worn it, wear it every time no exceptions, and be sure to properly wash my hands as well as wipe down my groceries and everything else that enters my home.
My girlfriend and I are the only two people we know that has not gotten COVID.
The amount of people I see who claim they wear their mask all the time but then post Instagram photos of them hanging out with people is too damn high. Just because they are friends or family doesn’t mean they can’t spread COVID to you lmao.
I also haven’t gotten Covid, nor has my husband. We even traveled, by plane, in 2020.
Personally, I haven’t been wearing a mask during summertime, but once fall/winter come back around, I absolutely will. Yes, it’s a risk, but it’s calculated. Sure it may bite me in the ass.
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